Yeah, I'm in. Looks like a good opportunity to learn and grow.

Funny story from back in the early 90s. I was just going to retire from live playing and looking for a path to go down. I started contacting Berklee about 18 months before I knew I was going to retire and had all this course material. There was a woman there at that time named Emily Wolfe who was corresponding with me and told me that she would be at a college fair in Cleveland and that I should stop by.

During the prep time I was asked to send in an audition tape of me playing. Well, I am a multi guy and am not a killer player on any of the 3 instruments I play. So I sent a tape of 3 of my songs, pointing out that I wrote, played, sang, produced, arranged, yada yada...

So I go to the college fair and meet Emily and I sat and chatted with her. She had files there on everybody from the area that she knew would be stopping by and she pulled out my folder and started asking me stuff. And then she got to the question that made us both laugh. She asked me something close to "What is it you would look to accomplish from attending our school? We've listened to your tape and we all asked that question. You play, you sing, you write, you produce... that's not to say there is nothing left to learn but at your advanced age with so many years of experience, what would you take from Berklee that you couldn't do by putting in practice time on your own? This is pretty expensive to do it just to do it." And we laughed at the prospect of me spending years there that would cost me $200k-ish and see me be 45 when I finished with a degree that would allow me to do what, teach?

Now THIS kind of course in a specialized area of instruction is a great opportunity and I anticipate learning quite a bit. I am curious to see the format, like if students critique each other's work. I have always found that to be interesting in that it is often quite generational and regional.